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Our Story
The coaching profession began to define itself as a distinct discipline in 1997, attracting people committed to bringing forth the highest human potential and helping individuals achieve their dreams. Over time, the coaching discipline has evolved and expanded its practice into organizations and teams across all industries and professions.
In 2006 a group of ICF Accredited Professional Coaches dedicated to individual and organizational wholeness purchased the Academy for Coach Training, a business focused on the training and certification of professional coaches;
And a new business emerged, called inviteCHANGE.
inviteCHANGE reflects the vision of creating a culture that is resilient, agile, and productive with high performing individuals who can execute flawlessly. There is trust, open and direct conversation with mutual respect for diversity. We proudly can say we walk our talk and are able to bring this work to organizations, individuals and strategic partners enabling them to develop their culture, environment and people to lead from this new perspective … a perspective we call the artistry of wholeness.
A major benefit that emerges from the artistry of wholeness is distributed leadership. A metaphor that embodies this leadership model is a flock of geese that are flying in “V” formation. As the lead goose tires, it drops back into the flock and another takes its place in the lead, allowing the geese to continue their journey uninterrupted and fully supported. Watching this scene in motion is true beauty. Experiencing and living it is artistry!
"It's a new type of leadership applicable to individuals, teams, relationships and organizations."
A passage from Kurt Hoetling’s new book entitled, The Circumference of Home (Published by Da Capo Books / Perseus Books Group, 2010) reflects the heart of the work we do.
As we walk Dry Slough through the center of Fir Island, we hear the first tremors of goose music building in the east, then rising to a hoarse urgency. Numbering in the thousands, the [snow goose] flocks fill the sky until they’ve buried the mountain in a storm of wings…the flock seems to function as a single organism…
There is an unpredictable, self-organizing quality to the behavior of flocks, a mysterious intelligence that relies on no one leader…The result is that unanticipated shifts in the direction of travel that benefit the whole flock can happen with breathtaking quickness…
It is a spectacle of immense beauty when seen from the outside…no one leader causes this to happen. An informed core of leaders scattered throughout the flock can trigger sudden shifts in direction…small individual shifts cascade into a mass shift at the point where a sufficient minority of the flock has chosen a common new direction…In real time it looks as if they all turn at once.